The Berlin Wall remained a symbol of Cold War tension until it was torn down in November 1989. The speech President Kennedy gave in Berlin is often called the ‘Ich bin ein Berliner’ speech.

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Vladimir Putin, Russia’s long-standing dictator, never got over the Soviet Union’s collapse at the end of the Cold War. He has called it the “greatest geopolitical catastrophe” of the 20th ...

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For most political scientists and historians, the Cold War was coming to an end, but Putin seemingly stayed trapped in that time capsule. In Putin’s worldview, Ukraine has no right to exist with an ...

A bitter and bloody war in Ukraine has devastated the country, further isolated Russia from the West and fueled economic insecurity around the world. In a call with President Trump, Russia’s ...

The Cold War may be all but ever, but Adler, Woods, and the gang have been thrown into another conflict. The CIA has become corrupt, and the squad has to get to the heart of the problem against ...

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The structural dynamics of the post-Cold War order progressively created the preconditions for the war in Ukraine. NATO’s relentless eastward expansion, though framed as the desirable expansion ...